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Portal:Current events/2015 November 27

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;Armed conflicts and attacks

;Arts and culture

  • Archaeologists discover four prehistoric Ichma culture tombs in the centre of the Peruvian capital Lima. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/four-pre-inca-tombs-found-in-peru/6980744 (AFP via ABC News Australia)]

;Business and economics

  • China's Shanghai index closed down 5.5%, a drop of almost 200 points in what was its largest single-day decline in three months. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/business/china-shanghai-stock-market.html (New York Times)]
  • Greek government-debt crisis
  • A new study shows Greece's six-year austerity program is even affecting prostitution. Gregory Laxos, a sociology professor at the Panteion University in Athens, told the Times of London the going rate for sex with a prostitute was 50 euros ($53) when the economic crisis began. Now, it’s fallen to as low as two euros ($2.12) for a 30-minute session, or to a cheese pie, a sandwich because they are hungry. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/young-greek-women-selling-sex-for-the-price-of-a-sandwich-new-study-shows/2015/11/27/c469695e-94d9-11e5-b5e4-279b4501e8a6_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening (Washington Post)]

;Disasters and accidents

  • 2015–16 Australian bushfire season
  • At least 87 homes have been lost in the fires that started in Pinery, South Australia which also claimed two lives and hospitalised 90 with five people in a critical condition. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-27/sa-fires-87-homes-lost-premier-says/6981240 (ABC News Australia)]
  • Floodwaters in the North Texas area of the United States claim at least three lives on Thursday and today with another person missing. [http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20151127-floodwaters-claim-3-another-person-missing-as-rain-pounds-d-fw.ece (Dallas Morning News)]

;International relations

;Law and crime

  • Former Saenuri Party member of the South Korean National Assembly Cho Hyun-ryong is jailed for five years for accepting bribes. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151207201854/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2015/11/27/0200000000AEN20151127003600315.html?input=www.tweeter.com (Yonhap)]
  • The appellate prosecutors office in the Polish city of Kraków decides not to appeal a decision against extraditing filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States to face prosecution for historic child sex offences. [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-poland-polanski-idUSKBN0TG0KY20151127 (Reuters)]
  • Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
  • An active shooter in a Planned Parenthood facility in the American city of Colorado Springs, Colorado shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department with one officer later dying. Two civilians were also killed, and six were injured. The shooter later surrendered. [http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29172660/colorado-springs-firefighters-respond-active-shooter-at-planned (Denver Post)] [https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/us-colorado-shooter-idUSKBN0TG27D20151127 (Reuters)] [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/report-active-shooter-near-planned-parenthood-colorado-springs-n470431?cid=eml_nbn_20151127 (NBC News)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/27/us/colorado-shooting-probe/index.html (CNN)]

;Politics

  • Detroit, a city in which property values are among the lowest in the United States, is looking to reverse this. The Detroit Land Bank Authority is demolishing structures that are beyond repair and auction (bids start at $1,000) ones that are salvageable. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/detroit-tries-unconventional-approach-to-restoring-its-housing-market/2015/11/26/a98db95a-7670-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines (Washington Post)]
  • China's paramount leader Xi Jinping announced a major overhaul of China’s military to make the world’s largest army more combat ready and better equipped to project force beyond the country’s borders. Under the reorganization, all branches of the armed forces would come under a joint military command. The Chinese Communist leader said the reform aimed to "build an elite combat force" and called on the officials to make "breakthroughs" on establishing the joint command by 2020, Xinhua said. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-26/china-announces-military-overhaul-to-make-army-more-combat-ready (Bloomberg)]
  • Yu Weiguo becomes the acting Governor of Fujian province, replacing Su Shulin, who had been detained on suspicion of corruption. [http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1884033/china-confirms-fujian-veteran-provinces-acting-governor (SCMP)]

;Science and technology

  • Retreat of glaciers since 1850
  • Scientific studies confirm more than 90 percent of the world’s glaciers are retreating, and many of the smaller ones — like the alpine ice sheets of Glacier National Park in the U.S. — are rapidly disappearing. On the other side of world, at Khumbu Glacier near Mount Everest in the Himalayas, expanding ponds are merging and forming larger bodies of water. This could threaten settlements downstream if they overflow. Thawing glaciers account for about 20 percent of the sea-level rise recorded in the past century, adding to the meltwater coming from polar ice caps and ice sheets. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/11/26/ice-worlds/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines (Washington Post)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34928569 (BBC)] [http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/201780508/antarctic-glacier's-past-rapid-retreat (Radio New Zealand)]

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